Abstract: A management service that receives requests for the cloud computing environment to host applications, and improves performance of the application using an edge server. In response to the original request, the management service allocates the application to run on an origin data center, evaluates the application by evaluating at least one of the application properties designated by an application code author or provider, or the application performance, and uses an edge server to improve performance of the application in response to evaluating the application. For instance, a portion of application code may be offloaded to run on the edge data center, a portion of application data may be cached at the edge data center, or the edge server may add functionality to the application.

Abstract: An embodiment of the invention is directed to reducing search-response latency. The closest intermediate server can be located between a client computing device and a search engine. A search query is sent to the intermediate server in a first packet of a transport protocol handshake. A plurality of packets are received from the intermediate server. The plurality of packets are used to open a window associated with a transport protocol. A response related to the search query is received by the client.